Mitsurugi Deck #762689 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 52/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Tempo
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Yummy synchro/link board from Lollipo and Cooky hand-summons into Cooky Way, Lollipo Way and Snatchy, closing with Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi (3200 ATK, destroys opposing monsters when Special Summoned); Ritual Mitsurugi pressure: Ame no Habakiri (2400 ATK, opponent monsters lose 800 ATK) and Mitsurugi Ritual / Mirror with Reptile tributes
• Turn 1 (going first): Pre-Preparation of Rites, Piri Reis Map or Sky Striker Mobilize to fetch a Yummy starter or Mitsurugi piece, hand-summon Lollipo or Cooky once a Link-1 or Level 2 Synchro is out, then Link or Synchro into the Way monsters
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Droll and Lock Bird, Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence or Maxx C for the opponent's search and summon, then rebuild the Yummy chain from the hand and Graveyard
• Recovery: Mulcharmy draw effects, Mitsurugi no Mikoto Saji add-on-summon, Mitsurugi Prayers and Yummy Surprise recursion, and Mulcharmy Fuwalos draws once the board is cleared
• After siding: Not applicable: side_count is 0 and Master Duel is evaluated as a single main-deck configuration; no side-deck plan is scored

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional plan through its search suite: 17 searcher-text cards, including three Pre-Preparation of Rites, three Piri Reis Map and three Sky Striker Mobilize, with about a 95 percent chance of at least one in a five-card opening hand (Inferred). Its starters are cheap Level 1 Yummy Beasts that hand-summon behind a Link-1 or Level 2 Synchro, which feeds the six Yummy Way and Snatchy monsters in the Extra Deck. Interaction is layered across Droll and Lock Bird, Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C, Crossout Designator and Ame no Murakumo, which earns the strongest dimension (D7). Conversion is capped by the missing Mitsurugi ritual core (Futsu no Mitama, Kusanagi, Great Purification) and the absence of any recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are inferred from card text only. The score comes from consistency, interaction and a plausible Yummy chain on the system, not from the archetype's 'Mitsurugi' label, not from usage popularity, and not from averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 58, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 57, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-1); Missing core engine pieces (-2); Engine conflict across four archetype families (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*57.9 + 0.20*52 - 5 ≈ 52

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Search density: 17 searcher-text cards give a high chance of a live opening hand
• Layered hand interaction with Droll, Ash, Impermanence and Maxx C plus board-level answers in Murakumo, Herald and Boxfish
• All 15 Extra Deck slots are used, and the Way monsters give repeatable Synchro access

Weaknesses

• Missing the Ritual core that usage stats show as near-universal, which weakens the Mitsurugi plan
• Four archetype families share one main deck, with low exact-name purity
• No Master Duel side deck, so there is no post-side adaptability
• Level 0 spells and tribute-gated Ritual cards raise brick risk

Critical choke points

• Link-1 monsters gate the Yummy hand-summons; only three Link-1s are present (Snatchy x2, Kagari)
• Droll and Lock Bird is a single-card choke when the opponent searches from the Main Deck (guide snippet, Inferred)
• Ritual monsters require Reptile tributes, and there are only 3 Ritual monsters in the list

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel under BanMasterDuel with 40 Main and 15 Extra cards; Copy counts and Extra Deck breakdown: 10 Synchro, 4 Link, 1 Xyz; Usage stats show Futsu no Mitama, Kusanagi and Great Purification at 100% inclusion but absent from this list; Card text for Murakumo, Habakiri, Lollipo, Cooky and Droll matches the evidence excerpts
• Observed: Guide snippet (Vietnamese) describes Droll as a key hazard and a cheap, strong-search deck
• Inferred: Opening-hand searcher probability of about 0.95; Layered interaction density and going-second board-breaking estimate; Ceiling and median read from card text, since no boards were recorded
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit; Going-second side-deck adaptability (no side deck)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) is available Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side deck is zero in Master Duel, so no post-side evidence exists